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ARE WE NEARING A DUNKIRK?
‘Today And
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Times War Map by J. Hugh O'Donnell.
Fomor row Are ‘The Days
By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Foreign News Editor -
Today and tomorrow are the days of decision in Korea. The biggest battle of the war is under way. It may go on for another 24 hours or longer and when it's over the American commanders will know whether they can hang on or whether they had better start assembling shipping for a Dunkirk evacuation of the port of Pusan. “The enemy seeks a decision,” a spokesman at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said. “He will do anything at all at this time for a breakthrough.” Every dispatch from the front indicates the American position is critical. What the American commanders in Korea are trying to do is to keep their position from changing from critical to desperate. We now hold a beachhead consisting of
roughly one-fifth of the territory in the Korean peninsula, Our forces are outnumbered by a ratio of four to one. The Communists opened their offenigive in the rain which means that the United Nations were deprived of the one weapon in which they have absolute superiority—planes. The Communists have attacked with some 45,000 men, and have made an end run around the American left flank to a south coastal highway that runs straight into Pusan. At last reports the Reds were some 50 miles from Pusan with a force of about 1000 men equipped
" with tanks and artillery. The Americans, hard
pressed in the center of their line, are going to have to do something quickly about that flanking force before Red reinforcements change it from a big raiding party into an army.
Of Decision’
We now have a semi-circular’ line protecting Pusan, but it is a thin line. If it cracks seri ously at any point, the Communists can pour through the breach, get in behind our troops and start isolating comparatively small units. Then there will be not.one-“lost battalion” of Americans, but a dozen or so. One of our difficulties in this war is that we have never been able to organize what soldiers call “defense in depth.” We haven't had enough troops. Once the Communists jabbed through our front lines, we were encircled. It would be a different story if we had not one defense line, but two or three, Then the enemy would not be able to roam at will behind our battle line, cut our communications and isolate combat teams.
(Continued on Page 8 Col. 8)
Gls Facing ‘Do Or Die’ Fight To Stay In Korea
‘Mister Draft of 1950'—
Red UN Move Feared Trick
Russ End Boycott;
Malik to Take Post LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., July!
Hoosier to Be
Hitchcock to Welcome 25-Year-Old Man
Monday Amid Newsreels, Interviews
By GALVY GORDON Indiana's citizens and public officials Monday will acclaim 25-| 2 year-old Ralph D. Brann as “Mister Draft of 1950." 2 (UP) —Dip lomats speciiated, Ralph, whose home is at 707 8. Norfolk St., will be the first United States Army will be! ¢ today that Russia's decision to y1,4iana youth to answer the call to arms in the Korean crisis draft. | ! |
end its boycott of the United Na-| He ig Indianapolis’ “No. 158”
tions may be for any of five rea-| sibly will be the first new citizen soldier of the state. date.
* Examined Order Expected Next
Week for Army Units By CLIFFORD THURMAN | Several Indiana units of) {the Organized Reserve Corps, f;
of the revived draft, and pos- called to duty at an early |
sons, including possible new plans Reclassified 1-A in 1947, but]
for aggression by the Kremlin. never called, Mr. Brann is regi- tioned he'd have to go down to) Chief Soviet Delegate Jacob A.|stered with Southwest Indianapo- the draft board. Very quietly Army instructor, Fifth Army, to-| ~General|lis’ Draft Board 52. His name is with no heroics,” said his step- day verified Washingfon reports
Malik informed Secretary
_Trygve Lie late yesterday that hefirst on the roster of men from mother, Lola. presi-{that board who will start through! Ralph is an enthusiastic bowler dency in his regular turn nextithe long road to the Army at 8 With the company team and has for his favorite Sports, baseball service. The call was expected
next Tuesday. He said the agenda Brig. Gen. Robinson Hitchcock, and basketball.
would assume the month and called a meeting forla. m. Monday.
“will be communicated later.” |Hoosier draft director, will be on
There-had been some specula-hand to welcome Mister Draft. 800d citizen.
tion. following the chief Soviet | Newsreel
cameras will grind,
delegate's announcement that the there'll be interviews, his voice Russians might make a surprisé/will be recorded on tape + . » en to
appearance today. {Ralph Brann is history. But the Security Council, after) a in , Henderson Cpunty,
waiting 19 minutes - after its! Kentucky, Mr. Brann has lived scheduled starting time, met with; Indianapolis 22 years, and in| p Id lio a units, including WACs, have been
the Soviet chair still vacant. |the same white frame bungalow Reasons Suggested ithe past 14. He's a graduate of Diplomats speculated that the Ben Davis High School, former Russians may have returned for leader in scouting and ex-Sunday any one of these five reasons: |School teacher, i ONE: They may be planning| Informed by The Times he new aggression
against Iran, was the man of the hour, his additional 872 men in the first
Col. H. A. Welsch, senior
that several Hoosier units will be among those called up for active;
jearly next week. ! But most of all he is just & Col. Welsch would not comment, on the extent of the call pending! further instructions from Wash-| ington. He said, however, that [the best trained and best equipped units in Indiana probably would! /be called up first. | The Organized Reserve Corps
conducting a widespread recruit-| ing drive during the past few,
49 Navy, Marine (months. Local military authorities! {predicted today that Indiana re-/
: ‘ Reservists Called iservists would be ready for the
Indiana will have to deliver an!call. Volunteers Lagging
State Reserves Gets His ‘Greetings’ in Hot Type Ralph Brann Slated as FirstTo Be Called
.
Greetings . . . Kenneth Bourke, Indianapolis Times composing room employee, is shown ments. | reading a proof on the story which informed him that he and other men of the |6th Marine
West Germany or Yugoslovia and| comment was just what friends n.iionaj draft call for “citizen Col. Welsch said members of Infantry Battalion have been called for active duty.
want to be on hand to veto any and neighbors who have known United Nations military sanctions. | him through the years would TWO: They may agree to medi- have expected: ation of the Korean war.
|soldiers” by Sept 30.
ithe Organized Reserve Corps had!
“ ding back” Brig. Gen. Robinson Hitchcock joeen "apparently holding back
a n ” | ” A 3 i + on volunteering for active duty Marines Here See We might as well get over state selective service director, in order to go with their respec-
THREE: They may denounce there and get it over. I'm more| was informed of the new quota tive units.
American intervention in Korea than willing to go if they'll take and hope to obstruct the United me.” Nations efforts to drive back the] 28 Months in Guard Red Koreans. . | Mr. Brann’s life is the story of| FOUR: They may hope to un-{good citizenship.
stalling Communist China on the tured ear-drum, he tried for the council.
accept their diplomatic defeat! in 1945. over Korea as gracefully as pos-| sible. {from Indiana's “first line of deBelieved Stalin’s Idea [fense,” he had served 23 months. The unexpected notification! Mister Draft is single and an
Nations was telephoned to Lie's Corp. He registered to vote at office personally by Malik in an the age of 21. And during the war| excited voice. It was believed the Years he worked hard in plants]
decision had been taken personal-|turning out equipment for the ical officers also called up are] {members of Indianapolis Brigade several units of reserves and a dant at Washington, D. C., yes-
fighting men. Ralph is a member of the Lyn-!9, hurst Baptist Church, and his|
ly by Premier Joseph Stalin.
i
Are proposed controls over wages and prices too stiff or ? There are three
waiting for him when he came in from work.
{last night by Maj. Gen. Lewis B.| {Hershey. Fe
Disappointed | Truman's speed-up orders, no ad- for reserves will be made I think| seat the Nationalist China dele-\'when draft doctors turned him ditional time was given to muster things will go rapidly.” gate and pave the way for in-/down in 1943 because of a punc-|the increased quota.
{Marines later that year and listed men from the Indianapolis specialized units, FIVE: They may be ready to joined the Indiana State Guard Navy and Marine Training Center, [trained in specific conditions of 30th St. and White River, were warfare, can expect to be called. When Ralph was discharged called to active duty today.
will report Aug. 7 to their as-
isignment in the Federal Building, that Russia would break its 29- assembly worker in the car-heat-|,, others are to report Aug. 16,
week-old boycott of the United ef department of Stewart-Warner |, shipment.
dad, Carl, says, a quiet reserved of 1450, more than double the 578 boy. |first assigned, will severely ax Army to Increase
. Of The Times Take for instance Tuesday eve- 1ngiana’s draft and Army inducning when orders to report were tion system, it was reported.
In compliance with President\i{rend of the war. Since a call
. | + The call probably will not inMeanwhile, the first reserve en- volve all Indiana units. Several]
Earlier Col. Thomas F. Joyce, Of the 49 men activated, seven
the report. He did say, however, that re-
Yanks Retreat Before Attack
MacArthur Calls Battle 'Savage’
By EARNEST HOBERECHT United Press Staff Correspondent
TOKYO, Saturday, July 29 —~American troops were (fighting desperately today to
hold their lines
| Pusan , ; And the enemy has wedge In between the 25th Division and the South Koreans fighting on their right. The biggest battle of the Koe rean War was on. It was being fought on a blazing arc, the south end of which had been thrust within 50 miles of the vital base of Pusan. Gen. Douglas MacArthur in his midnight communique described the fighting as “savage,” in con trast with the usual restrained language of his formal state
“Heavy Pressure”
Gen. MacArthur reported thet the massed Commuist forces, who
Louis Decides to [Fight in September
{announced today that ex-heavy-|
Earlier Story, Page 22
{weight champion Joe Louis has {decided to come out of retirement and fight at either New York or Chicago in late September.
match could be arranged with Ezzard Charles, .the National Boxing Association champion. Norris. issued a written state-
Sov ; : {serve smembers in several nonvere Tax on System |division units were being called in All of these men and two med- increasing units. 18.
16th Infantry USMCR Personal Roster, Page
{he quoted what the ex-champion told him over the telephone from Chicago this morning. Louis, in the talk, emphasized
Battalion,
In adjacent Illinois, he said,
Division 2. considerable number of special- terday. The new Indiana draft quota ists already have been called.
Strength 240,000
Present facilities and personnel: WASHT |
plans all have their ® » = backers says Earl Richert. GOP is lining up their Fall campaign sights on the lack of preparedness for the KoTORN WAL. tuvcssscisancess 18
Notre Dame powerhouse to be built around quarterback Bobby Williams. Oscar Fraley previews the football scene. Friends duel for City Junio
hands of the Brewers. ..... 22
Indiana servicemen serve on ships and stations around the world. Eleven of them are included in today’s list _ of “Hoosier Heroes.” ...... 17
‘We're teaching subjects in-. stead of kids” says #n IU
education?” Nine Indianapolis tennis starlets play at
Cup matches. ira of the old
carbon World War II Gerntan”Gen-
House Armed Services Committee ive officer. {said today the Army will boost its lon Sxecus ve
above its present appropriations . oo —on new tanks, guns, and weap-
The big Army manpower goal pointed up yesterday's draft call for 100,000 men and made it ap-la, parent that more draft calls are 7:30 p, m., Monday. in the offing. : The ipcrease in Army strength, however, will include undisclosed A: numbers of Reserves and National |
Aug. 2.
Danish Reds. Tie Up
U. S. Arms Shipment of COPENHAGEN, Denmark, coat t July 28 (UP) — Communist-led | [OF the field. dock workers refused today to (unload American ammunition from the mo Java, and strikes the shipment
-“ ”n
| About 200° workers stopped ‘word
men are needed to bring the
{battalion to full fighting strength. Hottest Weather
* | These deficiencies will be met f {mostly by a concerted drive to 5 ; lenlist ex-Marines with over 90 oO 1950 Due RES GTON, July 28 (UP) days service before muster call, “At dinner, he casually men-|(Continued on Page 3—Col. 1) Chairman Carl Vinson of the gig Maj. Nick E. Preston, battal-
| | highly trained leather-| jsizength as fast as possible t0| necks of Indianapolis and Marion| 834,000 men-—an increase of 240-| County were ordered to depart In addition the Army will spend a A a and arrive) year was predicted for tomorrow division’ chief who handled most |
1,651,043,160 extra — over and {and Sunday. | Cal. not later than Aug. 20, 21 "my. weather Bureau forecasta little more conversational al-| termined troops are holding hy
[temperatures up to 90 tomorrow, though not as well read.
How Muster Call Reads Q-—Why weren't The bi br communique said.
ons of every kind, Mr. Vinson said.| 1. ily the “muster call” for 5nd Jeported. Zor | Sy ah wilosses nal Tht
personnel reads like this: A.—There was no official com-| sions were reported fighting
Headquarters Company «we
A Sompany . . + 330 pm. Allison Pays $553,000 B Company .. . 730 p, m., For Canceled Vacations
ug. 1. > i Guardsmen. So no draft total as On (Me, Grain 6 TOE HUN started to flow into the pockets of| large as 240,000 is now in prospect. | full personal equipment. There were no separate orders; covering equipment. Lt. Col. Don- : {ald Hubbard, Anspector-instructor 2Warded to compensate workers,
} for vacations canceled at the re{of ttalion, said, vi of the battalion, sa ly uioped quest of the Army and Air “orce..
| More than 40 per cent. of the Ployees in the Indianapolis plant’ i ia 1: enor hs {ulated min Ind OE II combat. Workers in the firm's eo, threatened to tie up the port in “eas0ned veterans, many of them protesting (Continued on Page 3-—Col. 8)
before
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Hammes
Hottest weather so far this!
|had reached 91 last month. Tem-
| peratures tonight will dip to 65, |Plaint.
Rouls Clams Up “Up to now,” the colonel said, | NEW YORK, July 28 (UP)—| 1 1 “they have been slow in coming BY 0 : an S {The International Boxing Club! n b n iz in but extremely interested in the! !
Need Eight Officers And 220 Others
The local 16th Infantry Marine those highly pattalion will move out of Indianapolis at full strength, ranking officers indicated today. i ’ Orders mobilizing the 500 men public information officer, Fifth ,, 4 og officers of the 16th starmy Headquarters, Chicago, tinned at the USMCR Training |would neither confirm nor deny center, 2830 E. Riverside Drive, came from the Marine Comiman-
| ‘No Comment’ Is | His Stock Answer Police Chief Rouls clammed up the blows by some 45,000 Comtoday to The Times’ quiz on two munist troops. IBC President James Norris patrolmen accused of letting their said Louis hoped that a title prisoner be beaten. “no comment” came
from the chief to repeated ques-|.. : tions about the incident. which|toR the women would be used In
A terse
ment on behalf of Louis in which Chief Rouls said he is through mye North Korean 15th Division investigating. The interview ran something South Korean and the U. 8. 25th, like this: Q—Why weren't all witnesses pened in the area of Ichon-Ni, 27 he had decided to fight because called up during your main in. miles northeast of Yongdong. of a “large and unexpected” tax vestigation?
Eight officers and 220 enlisted assessment for the years 1946-47. A-—No comment.
| Q—Why did police wait six days 800 troops through the breach finding new . (against the prisoner? « A—No comment. And so it ran through several ing firm, and are trying to close \more questions. Chief Rouls be-the breach to restore their des came wordy only once: “Why can’t you find something thur reported. i else to write about? I'm getting] He said the main weight of the tired of reading about it.”
Capt. Audry Jacobs, traffic the Asaejon-Kumchon ; | “After losing some ground in {of the probe for Chief Rouls, was the Hwanggan area, the de
Q.—Why wasn't an effort made mined to overwhelm the lo (Continued on Page $3—Col. 4) (Continued on Page $—OCol
apparently had thrown everything they had into a showdown battle, wre “continuing heavy pressure all along the front.” But he added that, in general, our lines were holding. Field reports sent from Korea before the midnight communique said the Americans, outnumbered four to one, fell back 20 to 25 miles om the south coast and up to five miles near Yongdong under
(In Washington it was reported {that North Korea was recruiting 150,000 women “for use in the combat area.” There is no indicajcombat.) ‘drove a wedge between the 6th
{the communique reported. It hap-
bia 800 Reds in Rear The Communists threw about
charges into the rear area of the American {lines. i “Friendly troops are now hold-
|feRsive positions,” Gen. MacAre
{Communist onslaught was-along
positions in a -sava; fire ig
At least three Communist divis the west-central sector, “
Divisiofi, General Motors Corp. | These are the checks being!
In addition to the 4714 em{receiving checks, another 871
foundry got $70,000 in extra pay. {The plants originally planned to {close Monday for vacations and @ = inventory. 2 a
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Some $5:3,000 in checks today This Key to $3500 Treasure Hunt {hourly-rate employees of anison Comes With Times Sunday, W